Total initiative costs

Status

Colombia

Location

The project, held in the Departments of Tolima, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Caquetá and Amazonas, aims to enhance sustainable and appropriate use of local natural resources (medicinal plants and food) of some rural communities Desplazadas (displaced)of peasant, Afro-Colombian and indigenous, in order to improve the opportunities for rural economic development and increase the chance of cure and prevent the most common diseases.
It is thought, in fact, to focus the project on the themes of health prevention, improvement of the environment, food security and the cultivation and processing of medicinal plants, emphasizing in particular the local resources and creating small farming, so to provide a source of revenue for these disadvantaged minorities.
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Main outcome

Enhance the appropriate use of local natural resources and sustainable to improve the opportunities for rural economic development and increase the chance of cure and prevent the most common diseases for some displaced communities, peasant and Afro-Colombian and indigenous among the most disadvantaged of the Colombian departments of Tolima , Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Putumayo

Initiative data

Initiative number

007917

Purpose

Multisector aid

Sector

Other Multisector

Subjects

Agency

MAE - Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

Counterpart authority

-

Representative

dgcs.utc@esteri.it

Other financiers

Italian Bishops' Conference

Beneficiaries

N. 4 communities of displaced peasants, Afro-Colombian and indigenous people